‘I wasn’t all right, to the point that I didn’t make it here,’ she told viewers, ‘And I had the preview of my new show out and I couldn’t make that either.

‘When I’m ill, everyone knows about it. When Joe Bloggs is ill, nobody cares. But because it’s me, everyone is talking,’ she added.

Katie was back on Loose Women after suffering at the hands of some dodgy sushi (Picture: ITV)

‘But it wasn’t about cosmetic surgery, and no I’m not pregnant,’ Katie added. ‘I just had sushi that I bought at a train station and basically it was coming out at both ends.’

Ew. Although it’s not the first time Katie has come a cropper thanks to some dodgy raw fish – as she was also laid low in March by a similar medical emergency.

That time she made it as far as the Loose Women studio, although was sent home after telling a medic backstage: ‘I feel sick and obviously both ends – it’s not nice’.

It’s not the first time Katie has come a cropper after eating sushi (Picture: ITV)

Meanwhile Katie wasted no time returning to her outspoken self on the show, suggesting her kids had been ‘ugly’ when they were born and that daugher Bunny ‘looked like something out of the Grinch’.

‘I love my children, of course I do!’ she explained. ‘But when they are born…If you have a baby and think they are ugly, don’t worry. It will get better.’

Junior and Princess joined Katie on the show as they were officially made this summer’s ‘Loose Kids’ (Picture: ITV)

‘I don’t think my kids are ugly,’ she pointed out, ‘I’m just saying when they are just born they’re not the best.’

She made her comments as son Junior and daughter Princess joined her, with the news that they will be fronting the show’s Loose Kids segment this summer, giving their own views on topics discussed by the panel.